Africa
Ancient Pyramids Around the World
No matter if the civilization was Mesopotamian, Egyptian, or Mayan, its legacy today is in part marked by towering pyramids
November 20, 2009 |
By Amanda Bensen
Evolution in the Deepest River in the World
New species are born in the turbulence of the Congo River
November 03, 2009 |
By Kyle Dickman
Looting Mali's History
As demand for its antiquities soars, the West African country is losing its most prized artifacts to illegal sellers and smugglers
November 2009 |
By Joshua Hammer
Recording the Ju/'hoansi for Posterity
For 50 years, John Marshall documented one of Africa's last remaining hunter- gatherer tribes in more than 700 hours of film footage
November 2009 |
By Amanda Bensen
Across Africa, Finding Common Ground in Their Art
António Ole and Aimé Mpane came together to converse through artwork in a new insallation at the National Museum of African Art
June 23, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Day 1: Seeing Kenya from the Sky
Despite many travel delays, Smithsonian Secretary Clough arrives in Kenya ready to study the African wildlife at the Mpala Ranch
June 16, 2009 |
By G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Naming a New Species
Smithsonian naturalist Brian Schmidt gave a new species of African bird an interesting scientific name
March 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Africa on the Fly
Dangling from a paraglider with a propeller on his back, photographer George Steinmetz gets a new perspective on Africa
January 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
The Pygmies' Plight
A correspondent who chronicled their lives in central African rain forests returns a decade later and is shocked by what he finds
December 2008 |
By Paul Raffaele
The Great Human Migration
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
July 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Rare Breed
Can Laurie Marker help the world's fastest mammal outrun its fate?
March 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Curse of the Devil's Dogs
Traditionally viewed as dangerous pests, Africa's wild dogs have nearly been wiped out. But thanks to new conservation efforts, the smart, sociable canines appear ready to make a comeback
April 2007 |
By Paul Raffaele
Beard's Eye View
When elephants began dying, Peter Beard suspected that poachers were not entirely to blame
December 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Teeth Tales
Fossils tell a new story about the diversity of hominid diets
November 01, 2006 |
By Eric Jaffe
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Her new book says our views of Africa are outdated.
September 2006 |
By Amy Crawford
The Sound of Hoofs
In a breathtaking spectacle, wildebeest by the millions are on the move this month in the Serengeti
June 2006 |
By Virginia Morell
Uganda: The Horror
In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed: A dispatch from the world's "largest neglected humanitarian emergency"
February 2005 |
By Paul Raffaele
Stop the Carnage
A pistol-packing American scientist puts his life on the line to reduce "the most serious threat to African wildlife"the illegal hunting of animals for foodand to STOP THE CARNAGE
January 2005 |
By Paul Raffaele
Stanley Meets Livingstone
The American journalist's harrowing 1871 quest to find England's most celebrated explorer is also a story of newfound fascination with Africa, the growing power of newspapers and the United States' emergence as a world power
October 2003 |
By Martin Dugard
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